Sarah Watson is an associate fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS.

By Sarah Watson — In early November rumors swirled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration would cancel or sharply curtail the annual Winter Session of India’s Parliament. The possibility brought pointed condemnation from critics of the government, who saw it…

By Sarah Watson — On the surface, President Trump’s first visit to Asia was not about India. Delhi was not on the agenda, and India is not a full member of the regional groupings (ASEAN and APEC) whose summits were…

By Sarah Watson — The World Bank has been one of the foremost advocates for a state-centered approach to India’s power sector challenges. But the bank’s own lending to the Indian energy sector in fact lags overall lending when it…

By Sarah Watson — In November India will host the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. This piece is the third in an occasional series exploring the climate for entrepreneurship in India, what the Modi government has done to promote…

By Sarah Watson — Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made solar power a key plank of his energy independence and climate change agenda. India has set a target of reaching 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar generation capacity by 2022; it…

By Sarah Watson — On August 21, following a protracted internal debate, President Trump announced his strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia as a whole. The speech included both strong language on Pakistan and a promise that U.S. involvement in…

By Sarah Watson — In November India will host the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. This piece is the first in an occasional series exploring the climate for entrepreneurship in India, what the Modi government has done to promote…

By Sarah Watson — Recent farmer unrest has put agrarian distress back at the forefront of Indian politics. The challenges facing Indian farmers have changed little since Indian independence, but today a new universe of tools and technologies offers powerful…

The ouster of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is not a new event in Pakistan’s history — even in Pakistan’s recent history. But neither is it business as usual for India and the United States It demonstrates the difficulty —…

By Sarah Watson — The release of the Central Statistical Office’s (CSO) quarterly report on the Indian economy sparked much concern over slower-than-expected growth in the fourth quarter of the 2016-17 financial year. But the report also contained sobering news…